The Impact of Brokers on the Future of Content Delivery

@inproceedings{2016-Mukerjee-hotnets,
    author = "Mukerjee, Matthew K. and Bozkurt, Ilker Nadi and Maggs, Bruce and Seshan, Srinivasan and Zhang, Hui",
    title = "The Impact of Brokers on the Future of Content Delivery",
    year = "2016",
    month = "November",
    isbn = "9781450346610",
    publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3005745.3005749",
    doi = "10.1145/3005745.3005749",
    abstract = "Various trends are reshaping content delivery on the Internet: the explosive growth of traffic due to video, users' increasing expectations for higher quality of experience (QoE), and the proliferation of server capacity from a variety of sources (e.g., cloud computing, content provider-owned datacenters, and ISP-owned CDNs). In order to meet the scale and quality demands imposed by users, content providers have started to spread demand across a variety of CDNs using a broker. Brokers break many traditional CDN assumptions (e.g., unexpected traffic skew, significant variance in demand over short timescales, etc.). Through an analysis of data from a leading broker and a leading CDN, we show the potential challenges and opportunities that brokers impart on content delivery. We take the first steps towards improvement through a redesigned broker-CDN interface.",
    booktitle = "Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets)",
    pages = "127–133",
    numpages = "7",
    location = "Atlanta, GA, USA",
    series = "HotNets '16"
}